Hacker Papers
- 151
The Parallelism Tradeoff: Limitations of Log-Precision Transformers
Hacker News threads
- May 2023The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK
- May 2023A Logic for Expressing Transformers
- Mar 2024“Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study
- Jun 2024The illusion of state in state-space models
- Sep 2024Chain of Thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems
- 152
Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
Hacker News threads
- 153
If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Nov 2022If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare (2021)
- Feb 2021A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
- Feb 2021Once we can see them, it’s too late
- Sep 2021If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
- Jun 2024Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites
- Nov 2024Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress
- 154
Evil Never Sleeps: When Wireless Malware Stays On After Turning Off iPhones
Hacker News threads
- 155
Learning to summarize from human feedback
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2023Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Sep 2020Learning to Summarize from Human Feedback
- Jan 2023Some Remarks on Large Language Models – Yoav Goldberg
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Apr 2023Google DeepMind
- Aug 2025Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
- 156
Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin -- The Profile of a 1-in-a-Billion Genius
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2022Satoshi Nakamoto and the origins of Bitcoin – the profile of a genius
- Feb 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Oct 2024Satoshi Nakamoto and the Origins of Bitcoin
- Feb 2024Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
- Apr 2024New theory on Satoshi Nakamoto
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Oct 2024HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
- Apr 2026Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator
- 157
Locally Typical Sampling
Hacker News threads
- 158
It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2024It's time to replace TCP in the datacenter (2023)
- Oct 2022It's time to replace TCP in the Datacenter
- Nov 2022Moving past TCP in the data center, part 2
- Feb 2023Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers?
- May 2023Unbounded memory usage by Linux TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
- Oct 2023HN thread 38049303
- 159
Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2022Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
- Oct 2022GPT-3 can create both sides of an Interactive Fiction transcript
- Dec 2022Show HN: Web search using a ChatGPT-like model that can cite its sources
- Feb 2023Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT
- May 2023Giving GPT “Infinite” Knowledge
- 160
Perceiver: General Perception with Iterative Attention
Hacker News threads
- 161
Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Jan 2023Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge
- Dec 2022Can large language models reason about medical questions?
- Jan 2023GPT-4 could pass Bar Exam, AI researchers say
- Jan 2023Google and DeepMind just launched MedPaLM, a large language model
- Jan 2023An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyers shut it down
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- Mar 2023Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
- 162
Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a quantum processor
- Jan 2023Factoring integers with sublinear resources on superconducting quantum processor
- Jan 2023Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer
- Jan 2023Scott Aaronson weighs in on purported quantum factoring breakthrough
- Jan 2023Factorization (DCQF) of a 48-bit integer using 10 trapped-ion qubits
- Aug 2023
- May 2024Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
- 163
Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2023Diffusion Transformer
- Feb 2024Sora: Creating video from text
- Feb 2024Stable Diffusion 3
- May 2025Gemini Diffusion
- Jun 2025Normalizing Flows Are Capable Generative Models
- 164
Mission Apollo: Landing Optical Circuit Switching at Datacenter Scale
Hacker News threads
- 165
A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer
Hacker News threads
- 166
ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2021Zero-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- Mar 2021Zero-3 Offload: Scale DL models to trillion parameters without code changes
- May 2023Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
- Oct 2023Why async gradient update doesn't get popular in LLM community?
- 167
BBQ: A Hand-Built Bias Benchmark for Question Answering
Hacker News threads
- 168
High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Nov 2022High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression
- Oct 2022Using AI to compress audio files for quick and easy sharing
- Nov 2022Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
- Nov 2022New Mac app wants to record everything you do–so you can “rewind” it later
- Aug 2024AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis
- 169
The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2022The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning Training Will Plateau, Then Shrink
- Jan 2023On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? (2021)
- Jul 2025Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs
- Aug 2025Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes
- Aug 2025In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- 170
Competition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCode
Hacker News threads
- 171
Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
Hacker News threads
- 172
Student of Games: A unified learning algorithm for both perfect and imperfect information games
Hacker News threads
- 173
Hierarchical Transformers Are More Efficient Language Models
Hacker News threads
- 174
Cold Diffusion: Inverting Arbitrary Image Transforms Without Noise
Hacker News threads
- Aug 2022Cold Diffusion: Inverting Arbitrary Image Transforms Without Noise
- Aug 2022Cold Diffusion: Inverting Arbitrary Image Transforms Without Noise
- Oct 2022The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
- Jan 2023Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
- Mar 2023The Uncanny Failures of A.I.-Generated Hands
- 175
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning is a Sequence Modeling Problem
Hacker News threads
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